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Quotes About Private

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.
~ Donna Freitas
The aesthetic education offers a "subjective" transformation of each person's private war of conflicting drives into a knack for making beautiful public peace offerings.
~ Doris Sommer
The dead keep their secrets. And in a while we shall be as wise as they." —Alexander Smith "Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?" ? Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet, (modern translation)
~ Douglas E. Richards
Private flights back home, no stop-over.
~ Drake
You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.
~ Victoria Woodhull
No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
~ Lana Turner
There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.
~ Karl Marx
While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.
~ Bill de Blasio
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
~ George Eliot
The most important part of us is the part that no one ever sees.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer
I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
~ Jim Clyburn
His humor was dry, private, and splendid. Sometimes he would start to chuckle. A little at a time, his lips would move from a genuine smile to a pucker. Then, instantly, he would tighten them back in, until a tiny convulsion of laughter would bring them back to the smile, and sometimes, a full grin followed by laughter.
~ Joan Baez
When I was with my mother, I sometimes thought of myself of a trophy—something to be flaunted before friends. When out of public view, I sat on the shelf ignored and forgotten.
~ Joan Frances Casey
When I was with my mother, I sometimes thought of myself as a trophy-something to be flaunted before friends. When out of public view, I sat on the shelf, ignored and forgotten.
~ Joan Frances Casey
Qui pouvait comprendre cela ? Personne. C'était un combat intime. Le plus invisible de tous. Le plus lancinant aussi.
~ Anna Gavalda
But the mysterious and private heart never ceases to beat. Indestructible and immortal, the heart beats on, independent, and beating for me alone…
~ Anna Kavan
The contrast between private mushrooms and fungi-forming forest traffic might be an emblem for commoditisation more generally: the continual, never-finished cutting off of entanglement.
~ Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Grief is a private, internal thing. No one can say their pain is worse than yours because they don't know. So maybe it's not good to compare. Maybe it's better to talk to people who know you.
~ Anna Maxted
Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result
~ Anne Bront
I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference. Also it is a very private feeling I have - that of melting into a perpetual nervous breakdown. I am often questioning myself what I further want to do, who I further wish to be; which parts of me, exactly, are still functioning properly. No answers, darling. At all.
~ Anne Sexton
exI feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference. Also it is a very private feeling I have - that of melting into a perpetual nervous breakdown. I am often questioning myself what I further want to do, who I further wish to be; which parts of me, exactly, are still functioning properly. No answers, darling. At all.
~ Anne Sexton
Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
~ Adrian Edmondson
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
~ Dana Goodyear